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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

A MAN over 100 years old died in
Illinois the other day who had never
ridden on railroad train or eaten a
meal in a hotel. The dispatch failed
to state the length of the moss on his
back. He was a Democrat "allee
samee."
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

A BIG religious revival has been in
progress at Tullahoma for the last
two weeks. There had been over
thirty conversions up to last Monday
nipht.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

JAS. w. HYATT, of Connecticut,
was appointed Treasurer of the Unit
ed States on Wednesday, by the
President, to succeed Mr.. Jordan, re-
signed.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14
DIR. ]. b. Ritchey, Agricultural Editor
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.

We do not publish anonymous commu-
nications under any circumstances. The
real name of the author must accompany
every communication, or else it will be con-
signed to the waste basket, We do not pub
fish the names of correspondents, but want
them simply as guarantee of good faith.
All calls on candidates, obituaries, trib-
utes of respect, ETC., are charged for as ad.
vertising matter Simple announcements OF
deaths, marriages, ETC., will be published
without charge, and our friends all over the
county will confer q favor by furnishing us
with such as soon after their occurrence as
possible.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

IT is now given out from Washing
ton that as a result of the Southern
tour of the Interstate Commission
ers, the fourth section of the law will
probably be suspended indefinitely,
and be extended to all roads. This
is the section which contains the long
and short haul clause, and whichcon-
stitutes the most Objectionable feat
ure of the law. About as good a
thing as the Commissioners can now
do will be to resign, and thus admit
what the operation of the law so far
has proven, viz: that the placing of
the regulation and direction of the
stupendous railroad interests of this
country in the hands of five men was
a gigantic failure.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

A NEW National bank was opened
in Chattanooga last Monday. The
individual deposits for the opening
day amounted to $125,000.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

ANOTHER law suit is now in pro-
gress for the possession of Blind
Tom, the negro pianist. This suit
was brought at Chicago.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

Pulaski Citizen: 1t seems that the
interstate commission was created to
protect the country from the opera
ton of the law. They are kept busy
suspending the law. 1t may occur
to the next congress to repeal it.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

THERE wasa 100000 fire on the
southeast corner of Church and Col
lege Streets, in Nashville, Wednes-
day morning.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

REV. JOSEPH Cook, the famous
Boston lecturer will fill two appoint
ments at Nashville Saturday and
Monday nights.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

Nashville Union; A patent med
icine advertisement contains instruc-
lions on chow to acquire beauty"
The most approved method down
here is to marry a Tennessee girl.
No blanks in the scheme. Sure Win
ner every time.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

According to the statistics just pub
lished by the government bureau at
Washington, we are spending in this
country for malt and spirituOus liq-
uors seven hundred million dollars a
year, or twice as much as it costs to
support the government Of heJnited
States.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

Mr.. JUSTICE WOODS, Of the L.
5. Supreme Court, is reported as dy-
inga his home in Washington.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

THE first days sale of town lots at
South Pittsburg Tuesday was quite
satisfactory, Forty-two lots brought
over $50, 600.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

The order of Knights of Honor has
been in existence fourteen years, and
has distributed to sick members and
to Widows and orphans OF deceased
members $26,OOO,OOO. The Supreme
Lodge has been in session at Phila-
delnhia this week.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

IT is reported that rich vein of
lead has been discovered near Man.
chester.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14


PROHIBITION simply means / will
and you shall, and the man who will
vote for it acknowledges his incapaci-
ty to govern himself, and expresses
an unwillingness to allow the right
of self-government to others.-Mur-
freeSboro Free Press.
JUST as well apply the same logic
to the man who votes either the Dem
Ocratic or republican ticket. We be-
lieve we are living under a republi-
can form of government, in which it
is generally conceded that the will Of
the majority shall be the law of the
land. Then if majority of the le-
gal voters of Tennessee favor total
prohibition Of the sale and manufact-
ure of liquor throughout the State,
can the right to demand such of
their law makers be denied them ?
Certainly not. We would like for
the Murfreesboro Free Press, or any
other anti-prohibition papers to an
swer these questions: Why are the
saloons closed on election days? If
the sale of liquor can be legally pro-
hibited on election days, why not
every day in the year? Nine per-
sons out of ten in Tennessee will adj
nit that our four mile law is one of
the best laws ever put on our statute
books. If prohibition is a good thing
within the prescribed limits of four
miles, what argument can be used
against increasing its dimensions to
12j miles wide by 400 miles long,
just to cover the limits of the State
If prohibition is a good thing in the
sparsely populated districts surround.
ing country schools, why is it not a
better thing in the more crowded
territory of the town and city schools
Is a murder committed by a drunken
street loafer in town any less crime
than murder committed by q
drunken countryman out in the dies.
olate field or woods? A hundred
boys and young men are ruined by
liquor in towns and cities to one in
the country. fit is good policy to
protect the one in the country by
prohibition, isn't it of at least equa
importance to protect the one Inn
dred in towns and cities? When the
Free Press answers all these satisfac
torily, we will give it some more.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

THE weather bureau at Washing
ton has commenced the publication
of weekly weather crop bulletins,
which are supplied to the Associated
press in time to be used in all the
daily papers of the country in the
Monday issues. These bulletins will
give the general conditions of tenn
perature, rain fall, etc, with particu-
lar regard to their bearing upon the
staple crops of the country. BY COM
parison with the carefully preserved
records Of former years, it is hoped
to disseminate information through
these bulletins which will materially
aid the producers of the country in
their crop operations.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

THE East Tennessee Farmers Con-
vention will meet at Knoxville next
Tuesday, the 18th inst.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14
Nonresident Notice.
W. A. JOHNSON,

L ID. WEBSTER and ALFRED KELLOGG.
In this cause W. A. johnson having serv.
ed an attachment against defendants L. D..
Webster and Alfred Kellogg alleging that
Alfred Kellogg is a nonresident and that
defendants were about fraudulently to dis.
pose of their property, it is ordered that
said defendants appear before 5. j. Wallins
a Justice of the Pease for Warren county,
Tenn, at his Office in the town of McMinn-
vile, on the 11th day of May 1887, or the
cause will he proceeded with expartee.
This April l3, 1887.
S. j. WALLING, j. P,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

Pulaski Citizen: Isn't there dan
ger that the erection of so many blast
furnaces on paper will burn the pa
per.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

Several of our esteemed ex-
changes are suggesting rene
dies for cyclones. One of them
thinks the best way would be to
plant trees. The only infallible rem
edy is todig holes, and dig them deep
and crawl into them when a cyclone
rings the front door bell.-Murfrees-
bOro News.
That editor don't know anything
about cyclones. If he ever waits
until the cyclone unlatches his front
gate, he will never have time to
reach his hole in the ground. A
genuine cyclone will tear house all
to pieces and be quarter of a mile
away before the first fragments of the
wreck strike the ground.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14
Notice.

By virtue of deed of trust executed to
me by L. c. Turpin and wife Mary W. Tur-
pin on the 25th day of March 1885 to secure
debt due Mrs. c. NJ. Wiley, / will on the
Odd day of April 1857,
sell at the court house door in McMinnville
to the highest bidder for cash free from the
right of redemption house and lotsituated
in McMinnville, Tenn, upon which Mrs.
Turpin now lives. on street leading from
Smithville street between the property OF
Osborne and Mrs. Long, fully described by
said deed of trust. Sale within legal hours.
This March the Goth 1887.
C. RICHMOND.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

If the MurfreesborO Free Press
man will read the proposed prohibi-
ton amendment to the constitution
he will see that there is not one word
in it prohibiting man from using or
drinking all the liquor he wants.
The editor of the Free Press can store
away car load in his cellar if he
likes, and CONTINUE to be a firm adj
vocate of Temperance in all things"
but the prohibition amendment aims
to prohibit him, or any one else, from
selling or giving it to neighbor who
may not happen to be such "a firm
advocate of temperament all things"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

THE dusky queen Of the Sandwich
Islands, now visiting the United
States, is said to, be darker in COM
plexion than the average mulatto,
but not as dark as the full blooded
negro. She tips the beam at about
200 pounds. All the honors of the
government have been shown to her
by the President and his cabinet.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14
Chancery Sale.
!. L, MoFFITT ct. ats,
Va.
LOD ROWLAND ct. ais,

LOD ROWLAND ct. ais,
In obedience to decree of the Chancery
court rendered in the above styled cause
will sell at the court house door in McMinn-
vile on
Monday the 9th day Of May ISS7
tract of land containing about 60 acres
more or less, lying in the Sd civil district OF
Warren county, Tenn. Bounded by the
lands Of Perry, Hawkins and Elliott,
and known as the James A. Roberts tract of
land being same upon which John T. Row
land now lives. Terms of sale cash.
This April II, 1886
j. C. BILES, C. & NJ.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

WE have been very much fiattered
during the last few weeks by seeing
the STANDARDS editorials compiled
into a number of our State exchanges.
The Huntsville Sentinel is the only
one we have noticed which failed to
give us~the proper credit. And the
worst of it was, the Sentinel put the
article right into its own editorial
column. This was doubtless an over
sight on the part of the Sentinel, but
some papers do such things too fire.
quently to be excused on this ground.
IN editor who appreciates the work
Of his brother. editor enough to re,
produce it, ought to be generous
enough to give it proper credit.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

about those Congressman who voted
for this colossal farce. Don't they
need a guardian?-Huntsville Mer-
curry.
The Congressman are not to blame
for the passage of this act. Such a
strenuous cry went up from the "dear
people" and numerous newspapers
for the law that the Congressman
were simply compelled to close their
eyes and ego it blind" Had Con-
gress failed to pass the measure the
Members would have received just as
much censure, probably more, than
now. Many Congressman voted for
the bill against their honest convic-
lions as to its expediency, merely to
satisfy the popular clamor for it from
all over the country. Let the blame
rest where it belongs, upon the heads
of the thousands who are blinded by
a silly prejudice against the railroads,
and who seem to think the country
will 60 to the demnition bow vows
unless the general government and
state legislatures take all railroads
Of the United States in hand and
regulate" them. There are many
individuals, we might safely say the
majority of the human race, who can
only learn wisdom by sad experience,
and the people as whole are but in
dividuals in the aggregate. We are
glad the bill passed, and will rejoice
when it is repealed. The country
will profit by the lessons Of the silly
experiment.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14
HIRES IMPROVED ROOT beer,

Package % cents, makes gallons of de-.
licious, sparkling. temperance beverage.
Strengthens and purifes the blood. It's
purity and delicacy commend it to all.
Sold Ivy all druggists and storekeepers.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

DIR, j. b. McFERRIN, the grand
old man of the Methodist Church,
died at his home in Nashville at
1875 o'clock Tuesday morning. He
had been a Methodist preacher for 60
years, and no man ever died in Ten
nessee who was more widely known
or more universally beloved. Had
he lived till the 18th day Of next
month, he would have been so years
old. His four score years were truly
filled with usefulness to the world
and the church.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14
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lay st. N. Y.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

THE advocates of local option can
vote for prohibition with all due
consistency. 1t is nothing more
than local option more fully matured.
The locality over which this amend
ment proposes to exercise prohibi-
ton is 1875 miles wide by 400 miles
long. This is not very large scope
of country, and gives distillers and
saloon keepers ample opportunity to
move their stills and bar fixtures off
to other parts and dispose of them.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-05-14

AN earthquake occurred in the
northern portion of Mexico on the
Sd inst, which destroyed much prop
erty and many lives. One hundred
and fifty persons were killed in one
town. Volcanic eruptions destroyed
large areas Of forest and pastures.
Water has risen to the surface over
large tracts of lsndwhich previously
suffered from sdrOuth. Two rich
veins of gold were exposed by the
sliding down of the mountain side.
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quarter Of Q mile into the water WITH
reaching o depth that would drown him, X1
island itself was level and easy 10 turn i1714
streets and housesit 90 that Il isn Won1
that the suffocating multitude Of the ou4k61'
people Of New York do % to coney on fsIsud
building plots sold readily and to-day i1 ~
a permanent population Of somethinS HI
on twenty-four side streets and three eEQ10
ture Broadway Of shops, hotels and dspot1,
cars affording transportation up and down 4.
city boasts O. many hotels q this little
metropolis can vie with II in this rsspect.
Its hotels number almost 400. They aro
scattered al over the town in couples. half
lodging q rates to suit ell but the INDECENT;
at say. from Is q week to u per day. There
are no monster hostelries, not one il built OF
brick and ninety-nine in each hundred are
simply cottages bearing hotel names and
maintained a. boarding houses. But, Ike
the city and the people, they all look clean
and wholesome 1t il remarkable fact
about this, the largest of the seaside setsle-
ments. that though 1t may be cheap, It is mot
slovenly or dirty in any of its features. It
is clean, prim, tidy. sweet smelling. or
derly place. That is probably why one finds
the extremes of fashions and of simplicity,
of wealth and OF the next thing to poverty.
meeting there as they do nowhere else on TIE
coast A week ago the Astors. of New YORK,
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and the Biddles, of Philadelphia, and in fact
the richest and most exclusive folks from .
dozen cities we're there. Yet in cheaper ho-
tells were the families of poor clerks and
workmen. You will not find that state Of
affairs duplicated anywhere else on the coast.
Between ourselves, suspect the fashionable
folk will soon own the major part Of the
surrender and move away-but that's look.
ing far ahead.
The board walk and the stately and beau
tiful government lighthouse at the end Of Il
make 30 deep an impression upon all who seo
Atlantic City that they carry the picture in
their minds to all corners of the eapth and
all the days of their lives. 1t is a mine and
ure it gives is scattered by all who visit the
beach and incloses the streets and
houses. 1t is raised on short piles and
is filled with side rails wherever they
are needed. Its character Il con-
stantly changing. Now it dives between
long, rows of shops and Photograph galleries,
next it flees from the houses that pres
against its sides and seems to seek free
dom and air with nothing but the sand
and the sea and sky anywhere around Il.
Anon, it leads you to the fronts of stylish
hotels where you see the indolent and idle,
the gay and the beautiful, lolling and rest
ing on the porches, Again it plunges into .
thick section of noisy mirth-seekers, where
sdsn with sds sns yne : 4:
ones, dancers are whirling in one another's
arms and rifle galleries, drinking booths
and side shows attract noisy crowds,
Still further along this yielding, level,
wooden road, you pass beside the
free beach pavilions (another feature pscu-
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see this when we look upOn the man Of or1r
country and try to realize the extent of the
host of Americans who live far awav from
the coast with its tonic air and cooling
breezes; when we estimate how manv States
are land-bound, how rapidly the nonulation
is multiplying in them and how EAGER the
majority who live there must he IN ace and
feel and reyel in the sea that ia to them so
unfamiliar. romantic and ;nviooratinu A.
least half of population. soon "a number
1OO ooO OOo sonls must oct ;ts salt a;, ha. won
NAME ana fiorida'
But while the number of watering places
is thus growing and bound to grow, those
that now exist are already sweliinp within
then, selves ,o hot ,Iacos i;Lo AtIan.;o Ixt,.
mh;aS I;J ~ ~. Una. pa.es nne A'aiitic oi'y'
now enormous settlements rivaling, in that
one instance at least, some of the ancient and
most nonplar resorts of the coost of E,ro,,.
In ton ,,aars 49, pn.noS Soa "' 49,. =. op.. .roh..
-. - .en yo"'e Aons D,"iA0n naS 'rept .reole
i1s own length down the coast; coney Island
sand to a hundred thousand on hot davs.
Narrapansett pier has changed FROM, a ero,,,,
- az Ls.- ~ sio"p
VI n''ie ooaru,nenou W oouoie dozeh
ofgreat hotels; Nantasket Beach, near Boston
has been transformed from an excursion
landing to a proud little town. and Asburv
porL nd noean c,aua ~" a,an, au ss e."
n anu O.ean uiove naVe grown rom
luno osPecuiauVe uagram 10 oaolamese partner
ship of gigantic dimensions at least when
compared with other seacoast resorts.
Atlantic CITY N T. IA the largest A,a--
;oan n,s.or;no nisos "a ~ as. r.. Ane ass-
ioan "nuefins ,sIs p.ace' anu one Una. never
rests. When ohzzarus were sweeping the
whole country this winter and the ther-
mometer was at or close to the freez-
inc no;nt in al, hut tbo worr,ost So,,thor,
States Atlantic fYtv was hnsti;n, ,';tta .ha
act;v;tv of fortv hcte,s full of ;diars mi'n .ug
thev ware not c9,d e;ther m W cioMdi.ss da,,a Hmu
they nromenaJeS the oreat hoarS n,eIs uayS a!y5
in stprmv weothar nav t"rt wal doans a,.u
warmai ~ cracLiino InS 6rss ord - ,hnnr houls3
bv lively music rich eating and u a romnd 81
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eight moons belonging TO the planet
would be visible st the same time.

eight moons belonging TO the planet
would be visible ct the same time.
II the observer then went into the op-
posite hemisphere Of Saturn he would
find winter prevailing there, and the
shadow Of the great rings would rest
upon the land, covering large portion
Of the planet. Az he changed his position
the appearances presented would vary.
In some lstitudes he would find that con-
tinu6us night rested upon the planet, the
sun while rising passing across the sky
and setting, being all the time hidden
behind the rings. In other latitudes the
sun would be seen when rising and during
the morning, but would pass behind the
arch of the rings at noon to emerge again
in the afternoon and set. as 1t had risen,
in full sight. In other lstitudes, again,
the sun would be hidden behind the rings
in the morning and afternoon, but would
be visible above the centre of their arch
for . little while in the middle Of the
day.
Curiously enough, although Saturn is
in,re than 700 times as large as the earth,
its density is 50 small that It is only ninety
times a. heavy, and the force Of gravity
upon its surface does not vary much
fro1. that upon the earth. It follows
shat visitor from the earth to Saturn
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thrill the beholder with astonishment as
they appear in the field Of his telescope.
Here Nature In her sober senses has
exceeded the widest work Of the imagi-
nation. A world with ringsi That such
. thing could exist must have appeared
90 utterly improbable, not to say impos-
sible, that II the telescope had not actu-
ally shown 1t to US in the heavens, no
one would have been bold enough to
imagine It even in . fairy tale. No
wonder people told Galileo the devil was
In his telescope when he announced that
he had discovered these rings of Saturn.
His telescope was not powerful enough
to show that they were rings, and he
thought Saturn had two smaller orbs con-
Joined to it-a sort of three.headed
planet.
But impressive as 10 the appearance Of
Saturn's rings from the earth, 1t can bear
no comparison with the spectacle they
would present seen from Saturn itself.
The divisions between the rings are
SO narrow and some Of them appear to
be 90 variable that we may regard them
all a. forming practically one ring.
The appearance of the rings as seen
from Saturn depends upon the position
of the observer ON the planet, and also
upon which side Of the rings, with refer.
ence to the observer, the sun is shining.
Beyond about 66}e Of latitude, north or
south, the rings cannot be seen at all
from the surface of Saturn, and 90, of
course, they are forever invisible from
his Polar regions. One would have to go
within about 40o of the planets equator
in order 70 see the full breadth Of the
rings, and then their lower edge would
seem to touch the horizon. Nearer to
the equator than 40o, on either side,
the rings would appear as a vast
arch spanning the sky, its height
In the heavens increasing as the
observer approached the equator. Right
on the equator one would g. nd